VEGA Maidenflight
February 13, 2012 - Qualification flight of the new European Launcher Vega.
After years of development, the day of truth had come to find out if the youngest
member of the European launcher family was a success. And it was!
The mission was a tremendous success with an on-time launch and a precise
injection of the payload into the desired orbit. Congratulations to everyone
involved!
What concerns my photographic documentation of this milestone event, I must report
that I could not live up to the success of Vega itself. Just a few photos are worth of
being displayed here. The others have turned out as victims of rain, fog, and workmanship
flaws. Well, it was a qualification flight...